I would strongly suggest that you have a read of [MENTION=48965]Imaro[/MENTION]'s post about 5 or so upthread of yours.Now just complaining about something -- ironically is actually lazier than producing what the D&D folks have produced -- so all I have to say to the critics of this sort is -- if you do not like then make something better and put it out there and then complain about the D&D that is when you have posted this more in-depth look at whatever it is you felt the system was lacking. To do anything short of that is to part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
There is nothing lazy about calling out D&D for racial stereotyping. It's more like the opposite, because calling this stuff out takes effort.
I'm not sure how much you thought through your post - but you've just equated lazy stereotypes of people with a lack of detailed attention to economics.So I concur with the statement a ways back that states it is Lazy -- but then D&D has always been rather lazy or just surface glossing
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This half-effort is every where and not just in the terms of racial stereotyping but in the aspect of the economy and such.
Read the article linked to in the OP: the non-white gamers who are quoted aren't voicing scholarly objections to anthropological or historical inaccuracy. They're not pedants. They're talking about the way the game represents non-white people. Which is to say, the way it does, or doesn't, make them - those non-white gamers - part of the gameworld.